Musings from Former President Bill 7/29/2016

 

    Okay, for anyone who attended last week’s meeting, the speaker was a little different.  Hell, Lucie had him pick the winning raffle ticket and he pulled one, looked at it and put it on the table.  He never read it until we begged him, Odd, yes,

 

    His busy is interesting.  He has put together shows featuring music, film clips and comedy from the 40’s and 50’s.  He shows them at nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other venues for the elderly.  The concept is that our memories make us who we are and as we forget our past we lose who we are.  By watching the old clips and hearing the old music, the theory is that memories are regenerated and for a while anyway people find themselves.  The idea is fantastic but there were few people at our meeting who really remember Doris Day or Rosemary Clooney so perhaps the meaningfulness of the nice business model was a bit lost on us especially when the demo went on and one from one old movie to the next old song.  I should note that I did see a picture of Doug Kay and his first wife sitting in the back seat of their ’57 Buick convertible.  She was hot in an old fashioned kind of way.

 

 

    I, for one, can certainly remember where I was when I first heard “Any Too Proud to Beg” because I believe I was begging at the time.  Just ask Lucie about the significance of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” to her.  I am told that music and smells are the two things that can stimulate memories more than anything else.  I don’t think any of us will ever forget MERC.

    Soon we will need all hands on deck related to the 2nd Annual Beer Festival.  Plans are well underway for the September 10th event.  We are all going to sell tickets this year like we do for the wine tasting events to make sure we have a big crowd.  We are also having the event inside this year to avoid the risk of a bad weather day.  Let’s make sure we give Ken Farley and his committee all the support we can to make it a great time.

 

 

    Don’t forget to mark your calendars for August 20 when we all invade Lucie’s Hill’s Beach home for some fellowship.  Brian Dalliare has promised that we will be able to do some 4 wheel drive racing on his lawn which is near Lucie’s property.  We will need to make Ken wear a life jacket all afternoon so we don’t lose him in the currents of the Biddeford Pool gut.  Lucie has promised her world famous lobster rolls with lobster caught by her husband, Doug.  It should be a fun time and we should all support President Lucie and make every effort to be there.

 

 

    Please take the time to sign up for the Club’s Alzheimer’s team which will walk in the Alzheimer’s Walk on September 17 down in York.  If you can’t make the event please go on line to support the team with a donation.  We are still a long way from finding a cure to this horrific disease which robs individuals who they are, but these fundraisers provide a fun and inspirational way to help fund a cure while also supporting the 1,000’s of families affected by the disease.  Your help will be appreciated.

 

 

    Next week our speaker is Marc Feldman who is going to talk to us about Think Take Co-Working which should be an interesting look at a business model for the future that is here today.  
See you next week.  Bill